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Maybe unlikely to be seen in the skies anytime soon: The Magnus Aerospace Corporation of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada tried to develop a Magnus effect-assisted airship in the early to mid 1980s. The spherical balloon spins on its horizontal axis...

Someone ought to invite him to share all the data and methods he used in the transient technical thread. You're all independent researchers, after all. The Metabunk technical threads are where the real work is done and he'd make a valuable...

Hows this?! This morning we got a rare snowfall here in Charlotte, and I snapped this pic to post on FaceBook, showing the falling snow and a bit of yard art. When I went to the site to post the pic, this suggested video was waiting for...

It could be easier to provide clarification if there is a specific question. Here are a couple diagrams that could be helpful. Drastically simplified 2D scenario, not to scale, with arbitrary bird flight plane purely for illustration purposes...

Compare: Cruise Control - Most waterfowl fly at speeds of 40 to 60 mph, with many species averaging roughly 50 mph. With a 50 mph tail wind, migrating mallards are capable of traveling 800 miles during an eight-hour flight. Studies of duck...

Some other values: BRG goes from 261º to 264º (not much change) FOR goes from 121M to 82M LAT goes from 28º 27' 17.8" N to 28º 27' 28.6" N LON goes from 50º 33' 37.4" E to 50º 35' 17.1" E (in the last frame or so it looks like it may switch...

I guess that’s why I love the Calvine case. It’s analog, like the beautiful fakes by Meyer and Adamski. Old school kitchen utensils. No AI “flying orbs”-crap.

I would like to see the source for the "officially documented and cataloged within Intelligence Community investigations as "orbs"" statement. The term orbs was never used back in the day when I was in govt, and a quick search of the AARO website...

So, are we all braced for the 1,000 AI UFO/UAP videos, coming at us in 2026?

Yeah, but if they already knew for a fact that none of their jets were flying in the Calvine area that weekend, then the whole thing would essentially be debunked already. I don't think the MoD would have used resources to "debunk" UFO stories.

No, "the military" is entirely 100٪ composed of our fellow humans. Like the rest of us, some are heroes and some are bad folks on balance, but all of them have good and bad traits just like me and you and everybody else. Like other human...

I've been wondering if it was a popular thing, there were other apocryphal "sightings" around this time, such that every new one (especially from a teenager who might want a few minutes of fame or a few dollars from a publisher) occasioned the...

I've roughly stabilized it using Sitrec's Auto Tracking (with "Center on Bright"). There are a couple of spots it missed where it goes off screen or behind the timestamp. But enough to get a sense of the motion of the ocean. I think the MQ-9...

I see perceive flapping.

It's getting the usual responses on /r/ufos: Attacking the reliability of the witnesses is part of a cover-up; now I believe even more; and/or Encountering UFOs/aliens causes memory lapses, you can't use inconsistencies to poke holes in stories...